Tag Archives: lead paint

Members of the lead-paint bar will sit down with the committee overseeing changes to Baltimore City Circuit Court’s differentiated case management plan after attorneys raised questions about a draft of the plan at a hearing last week. Four committees spent ...

The Court of Special Appeals has upheld a $1.45 million verdict awarded to a woman who alleged she suffered brain damage due to her exposure to lead paint in a Baltimore rowhouse where she lived as a child. The verdict, ...

Having represented children in Baltimore city who are victims of childhood lead poisoning for the past 23 years, I was excited to hear about Gov. Larry Hogan and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake working together to demolish many of the vacant, dilapidated ...

Is it OK for an innocent little baby or toddler to be poisoned in their own home? I can’t imagine many (or any) readers answering, “Yes, that’s fine.” Yet every single day, multiple children in Maryland are lead-poisoned by deteriorated ...

Maryland’s top court on Thursday will consider and possibly vote on a proposed rule designed to ensure judges protect recipients of structured financial settlements from being exploited if they choose to sell them to a third party due to an imminent need for money.

The Maryland Department of the Environment says it’s sending out 87,000 letters to landlords who haven’t registered their rental units under a law meant to reduce childhood lead poisoning. The agency said Thursday the rule applies to rental units built ...

Lead-paint plaintiffs’ attorneys say plan to ask the Court of Special Appeals to report an opinion issued Thursday striking down what they call a common defense argument in lead-paint cases. An unanimous appellate panel held that a loss of IQ ...

Circumstantial evidence can be used to show that lead was likely present in a home and poisoned a child, a Maryland appeals court has held in reviving a woman’s lead-paint poisoning lawsuit even though the Baltimore house where she lived as a baby was never tested for the toxin.